Referendums
What is the voter turnout at referendums in Denmark? How many are eligible to vote? In connection with referendums, Statistics Denmark is tasked with collecting and tallying votes for the entire country.
Selected statistics on Referendums
Development in voter turnout
The municipalities are responsible for organising an elections and adding the results. Results are disseminated electronically to Statistics Denmark via the IT company KMD. On election night Statistics Denmark also gets results by telephone.
Development in number of voters
The municipalities are responsible for organising an elections and adding the results. Results are disseminated electronically to Statistics Denmark via the IT company KMD. On election night Statistics Denmark also gets results by telephone.
Development in percentage of advance votes and invalid votes
The municipalities are responsible for organising an elections and adding the results. Results are disseminated electronically to Statistics Denmark via the IT company KMD. On election night Statistics Denmark also gets results by telephone.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
Statistics Denmark have overtaken the responsibility for making statistics on national elections from the Ministry of Interior in October 2008. It is Statistics Denmark, who make and announce all the official results regarding elections.
Below you can see when Denmark has held referendums and what subjects were put to vote:
Amendments to the constitution:
6 September 1920
23 May 1939
28 May 1953
Voting age:
28 May 1953 - change of voting age from 25 to 23 or 21 years
30 May 1961 - change of voting age from 23 to 21 years
24 June 1969 - change of voting age from 21 to 18 years
21 September 1971 - change of voting age from 21 to 20 years
19 September 1978 - change of voting age from 20 to 18 years
Other subjects:
25 June 1963 – acquisition of farms, act on state smallholdings, municipal option to buy land, nature conservation
2 October 1972 – accession to the EC
2 June 1992 – accession to the Treaty on European Union
18 May 1993 – accession to the Edinburgh Agreement and the Treaty of Maastricht
28 May 1998 – accession to the Treaty of Amsterdam
28 September 2000 – participation in the single currency
7 June 2009 – amendment of the law of succession
25 May 2014 – the Unified Patent Court
3 December 2015 – the judicial opt-out
1 June 2022 – the defence opt-out
Indicative referendums (i.e. Parliament is not bound by the result):
14 December 1916 – sale of the West Indian Islands
27 February 1986 – Denmark’s accession to the Single European Act